[extropy-chat] internet search privatizer

[Robert Bradbury]

On 9/5/06, spike <spike66 at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> We could also generate random email traffic from random sentences or
> paragraphs selected from our inboxes, emailed to recipients with
> prearranged
> spam filtering.  Thus our email history could be buried in reams of
> meaningless bits.  It would require a human agent or human equivalent
> intelligence to distinguish the real email from the randomly generated
> variety.


Bonk!  Spike loses his personal discount for therapies under the Bradbury
patent on an extended life genome for suggesting a stupid waste of resources
(i.e. promoting unsustainable activities).  My Gmail spam folder has 252
items in it this morning (I haven't emptied it in a couple of days) -- we do
*not* need more SPAM, pointless searches, etc. generating more *noise* using
up useful network bandwidth and computing resources! [1]

As others point out there are good solutions to the "be anonymous and avoid
big brother" problem.  There are extropic (sustainable) things one can do
with ones computing resources (the @HOME projects [2]) and bandwidth (the
distributed routing/proxy projects others have mentioned or even BitTorrent
sharing of "extropic" texts).

Robert

1. Examples of the extropic value of minimizing unproductive use of network
bandwidth and dedicating ones "extra" bandwidth to "useful" activities
include:

   - Faster searches and web page downloads (available human mind time is
   currently a primary constraint on the singularity -- humans are not very
   good at context switching (thinking about something else) when the time
   slices are measured in seconds).
   - Allowing the people in police states to have greater access to
   "prohibited" information (e.g. let the Chinese read about their 'real'
   history and discuss it if they want to).
   - If we manage to stamp out SPAM, useless queries, etc. the network
   bandwidth will be available to enable human mind level AI to be developed
   independent of "state" control (a few thousand PlayStation 3's on a Verizon
   FIOS network should be sufficient [at least in terms of the processing power
   requirements -- I make no calls on the software requirements]).

2. The best of these I believe is still Folding at Home.  SETI at Home is probably
a complete waste of time and GIMPS falls somewhere in between.
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